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June Newsletter


Posted in General Posts by Angie Hoeppner on 6/24/2009


Here is part of my June Newsletter. It is a little bit about what God is teaching me right now as He is preparing me for this trip.
 
 
Called To Love

I recently just finished a book with the small group Bible Study I lead on Wednesday nights. The book was called Hope Lives by Amber Van Schooneveld. We have been working through this book for a couple of months now, and God has been opening up my heart to things that I will be experiencing in the year to come. Hope Lives is a book about a journey, a journey that the author encourages the readers to take. It challenged me to love people no matter who or where they are. I absolutely love other cultures, but this book really drove home to me how much God talks about loving the poor and the widows in the Bible. James 1:27 says, "Religion that God our Father accepts as pure

and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world." Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless. This is the kind of love I want to give everyone. Not only in the next year when I am away, but even now, my prayer is that God would fill me with a love that I have never known.

Isaiah 58:6-7 says, "Is not this the kind of fasting I have chose: to loose the chains of injustice and untie the cords of the yoke, to set the oppressed free and break every yoke? Is it not to share your food with the hungry and to provide the poor wanderer with shelter-when you see the naked, to clothes

him, and not to turn away from your own flesh and blood?" Again, we are called to serve those in need, to set the oppressed free.

As I think about the World Race 2010, I am learning what it means to act out my faith by taking care of those in need and setting the oppressed free with the love of Jesus.  

 
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Expectations of My Mission Trip


Posted in Mission Trip Thoughts by Angie Hoeppner on 5/17/2009


We were asked to write a blog about how we felt before leaving on this mission trip. Here is what I am expecting...
 
Having never been away from home for more than 4 months, I expect to miss my family. I also expect that the joy of seeing others praise the same God, being healed in His name, realize that someone loves them, and share thier stories of how they began their relationship with Christ, will go far beyond me missing my family.
I expect to build a community of believers with the team that will be traveling together. A community that will be there for each other in time of need, sorrow, and joy.
I expect God to do amazing things, and my eyes to be opened to things I could never imagine. I expect to struggle with things and learn things that will be valuable for the rest of my life.
In one sentence, I expect to be changed and to bring change.
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How I was called to the Mission Field


Posted in Mission Trip Thoughts by Angie Hoeppner on 5/17/2009


   We were asked to write a blog about how we were called to this mission trip. Here is my story...
II have been going on inner city and overseas mission trips since I was a freshman in high school. I have always been interested in other cultures. My passion and desire to learn about other cultures led me to choose an Intercultural Studies major, cross cultural focused, at Taylor University in Fort Wayne. While attending Taylor, I continued to go on various mission trips and did my internship in the Dominican Republic working with children in villages.
After college, I studied Spanish abroad, as well as traveled with our church's youth group as a leader for their mission trip. 
I continued to have the passion for other cultures. While I don't know where this passion is leading me in life, I do know that God calls me to minister to everyone I can in my own hometown and across the world.
I was searching on the internet looking for a short-term summer mission trip to attend, and I happened to come across the World Race on AIMs website. It sounded like something interesting, and after inquiring about it and going through the application process, here I am today. I am really looking forward to this trip and the challeneges and lessons that I am going to learn. I am also looking forward to the community we are going to be a part of, and the love that will be surrounding our teams. God called me to this trip...and I am doing my best to listen.
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Bio - World Race 2010


Posted in General Posts by Angie Hoeppner on 5/8/2009


Through a series of events, God has called me to go on an 11-month long mission trip all over the world.
The trip is called the World Race and I will be leaving in January 2010. This is my blog page. I will be updating what God is doing in my life and the lives of others as I travel around the world sharing His love. I hope you all can join on this journey with me!
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